Major transformations are underway for the global energy sector, from growing electrification to the expansion of renewables, upheavals in oil production and globalization of natural gas markets. Across all regions and fuels, policy choices made by governments will determine the shape of the energy system of the future.
Learn more: www.iea.org/weo2018

IRENA is a hub, a knowledge centre, and a global voice for renewable energy. IRENA promotes the widespread adoption and sustainable use of all forms of renewable energy, including bioenergy, geothermal, hydropower, ocean, solar and wind energy in the pursuit of sustainable development, energy access, energy security and low-carbon economic growth and prosperity.
More info: www.irena.org

published:07 Jun 2015

views:6063

California has become the first state to require that new homes be built with solar panels. The rules go into place in 2020 and are part of the state’s ambitious efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. But these requirements also make it more expensive to build in a state where housing is already extremely expensive.
The new building rules approved by the California Energy Commission apply to all residential buildings up to three stories high (including both single-family buildings and condos). They’ll no doubt help California reach its goal of having at least half of electricity come from renewable energy by 2030. Solar is already responsible for about 16 percent of California electricity...Read More At:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/9/17335832/california-solar-panel-housing-politics-renewable-energy
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published:12 May 2018

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National GeographicMegastructures - Featuring Adani’s Solar Power Plant- BBCDocumentaryHistoryAdani Group:
Adani Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Its diversified businesses include resources, logistics, agribusiness and energy sectors.[5] The Group is the largest port developer and operator in India with Mundra Port being the country’s largest commercial port. It owns Fortune, India’s largest edible oil brand through a joint venture with Wilmar International in Singapore.[6] The FlagshipCompany of the Adani group is Adani Enterprises Limited. In April 2014, it added the 4th unit of 660 MW at its TirodaPower plant, making Adani power the largest private power producer of the country. In 2015, Adani was ranked India's most trusted infrastructure brand by The Brand Trust Report 2015.[7]
The company was founded in 1988 as a commodity trading business. First generation entrepreneur Gautam Adani is the founder & chairman of Adani Group. According to Mr Gautam Adani,The Group was created with a vision of ‘NationBuilding’ by developing assets of national economic significance. This reflects in the choice of businesses the group has entered and developed over the years
Solar power
https://goo.gl/h5trfZ
Solar power is the conversion of sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), or indirectly using concentrated solar power. Concentrated solar power systems use lenses or mirrors and tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam. Photovoltaic cells convert light into an electric current using the photovoltaic effect.[1]
The InternationalEnergyAgency projected in 2014 that under its "high renewables" scenario, by 2050, solar photovoltaics and concentrated solar power would contribute about 16 and 11 percent, respectively, of the worldwide electricity consumption, and solar would be the world's largest source of electricity. Most solar installations would be in China and India.[2]
Photovoltaics were initially solely used as a source of electricity for small and medium-sized applications, from the calculator powered by a single solar cell to remote homes powered by an off-grid rooftop PV system. As the cost of solar electricity has fallen, the number of grid-connected solar PV systems has grown into the millions and utility-scale solar power stations with hundreds of megawatts are being built. Solar PV is rapidly becoming an inexpensive, low-carbon technology to harness renewable energy from the Sun. The current largest photovoltaic power station in the world is the 850 MW Longyangxia DamSolarPark, in Qinghai, China.
Commercial concentrated solar power plants were first developed in the 1980s. The 392 MW Ivanpah installation is the largest concentrating solar power plant in the world, located in the Mojave Desert of California.
Megastructures :
Megastructures is a documentary television series appearing on the National Geographic Channel in the United States and the United Kingdom, Channel 5 in the United Kingdom, France 5 in France, and 7mate in Australia.
Each episode is an educational look of varying depth into the construction, operation, and staffing of various structures or construction projects, but not ordinary construction products.
Generally containing interviews with designers and project managers, it presents the problems of construction and the methodology or techniques used to overcome obstacles. In some cases (such as the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge and Petronas Towers) this involved the development of new materials or products that are now in general use within the construction industry.
More videos: https://goo.gl/D9YhLb

published:28 Nov 2016

views:28088

Solar PV grew faster than any other fuel in 2016, opening a new era for solar power.
ExploreRenewables 2017 in more detail: www.iea.org/renewables

Africans have been waiting for decades for the mains electricity which the rich world takes for granted. Sub-Saharan Africa’s 910m people consume less electricity each year than the 4.8m people of Alabama. Many more who are on the grid suffer brown-outs and dangerous surges in current. But a solar revolution is afoot.
Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: http://econ.st/2F8I0jB
In 2009 just 1% of sub-Saharan Africans used solar lighting. Now it is nearly 5% or 11m people. The InternationalEnergyAgency, a Paris-based government think-tank, reckons that 500m more people will have solar electricity by 2030,
Why is solar power spreading so fast in Africa? There are three main reasons.
First, solar panel technology has improved. Efficiency gains and mass production mean that modern photovoltaic panels have plunged in price per watt – to around 30 cents.
Second, low-energy bulbs have got better and cheaper. Modern solar lamps cost as little as $8—they charge by day and give light by night. They replace costly and dangerous alternatives - Africans waste $10 billion a year on kerosene. Even worse are candles, open fires—or darkness, which hurts productivity and encourages crime.
The third, crucial development is in storage, as lamps are needed at night and solar power is collected in the daytime. Old nickel cadmium batteries wore out after 500 recharges; lithium-based ones can manage 2,000 and store much more electricity
Additionally, solar power is increasingly well-financed in Africa. Aid donors are sponsoring more ambitious projects – specially designed fridges and televisions, for example. Bigger solar systems can run a school or clinic, a grain mill or irrigation pump, or even a whole village.
Some dismiss solar as a second-best solution. But conventional, centralised electrical grids have proved unreliable and inefficient in the past -- and solar is much better than nothing.
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published:16 Jan 2015

views:67505

The CSISEnergy and National SecurityProgram is pleased to host Heymi Bahar, Project Manager of the Renewable EnergyDivision at the International Energy Agency (IEA), for a presentation of the IEA's Renewable Energy MarketReport 2017 (formerly titled Medium-Term Renewables Market Report). The report provides a detailed market analysis and overview of renewable electricity capacity and generation, biofuels production, and heat consumption, as well as a forecast for the period between 2017 and 2022. This year's report also assesses the off-grid solar market in Africa and developing Asia and the contribution of electric vehicles to renewable road transport.
Additionally, the Renewable Energy Market Report 2017 identifies a set of policy improvements in key markets that could accelerate the growth of renewables in the electricity sector as well as transport biofuels, necessary in all sectors for increased decarbonisation on track with long-term climate goals.

Based on REN21's 2014 report, renewables contributed 19 percent to humans' global energy consumption and 22 percent to their generation of electricity in 2012 and 2013, respectively. This energy consumption is divided as 9% coming from traditional biomass, 4.2% as heat energy (non-biomass), 3.8% hydro electricity and 2% is electricity from wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass. Worldwide investments in renewable technologies amounted to more than US$214 billion in 2013, with countries like China and the United States heavily investing in wind, hydro, solar and biofuels.

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The Economist

The Economist is an English language weekly newspaper owned by the Economist Group and edited in offices based in London. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843. For historical reasons, The Economist refers to itself as a newspaper, but each print edition appears on small glossy paper like a news magazine. In 2006, its average weekly circulation was reported to be 1.5 million, about half of which were sold in the United States.

The publication belongs to The Economist Group. It is 50% owned by private investors and 50% by Exor, the Agnelli holding company, and the Rothschild banking family of England. Exor and the Rothschilds are represented on the Board of Directors. A board of trustees formally appoints the editor, who cannot be removed without its permission. Although The Economist has a global emphasis and scope, about two-thirds of the 75 staff journalists are based in the City of Westminster, London. As of March 2014, the Economist Group declared operating profit of £59m. Previous major shareholders include Pearson PLC.

"The Economist" was watched by 14 million American viewers and received positive reactions from critics.

Plot

Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) and Miles Straume (Ken Leung) argue about what to do about leader of the Others, Ben Linus (Michael Emerson), and Miles's colleague Charlotte, both sought after by Miles and his colleagues and taken prisoner by Locke. Sayid pays his respects to Naomi Dorrit, and takes her bracelet. He then offers to retrieve Charlotte without bloodshed, in return gaining a helicopter flight to the freighter anchored offshore. He takes along Miles and Kate. Sayid asks Jack not to come with them as he might be unpredictable around Locke.

Solar (room)

The solar was a room in many English and French medievalmanor houses, great houses and castles, generally situated on an upper storey, designed as the family's private living and sleeping quarters. In such houses, the main ground-floor room was known as the Great Hall, in which all members of the household, including tenants, employees and servants, would eat. Those of highest status would be at the end, often on a raised dais, and those of lesser status further down the hall. But a need was felt for more privacy to be enjoyed by the head of the household, and, especially, by the senior women of the household. The solar was a room for their particular benefit, in which they could be alone and away from the hustle, bustle, noise and smells (including cooking smells) of the Great Hall.

The solar was generally smaller than the Great Hall, because it was not expected to accommodate so many people, but it was a room of comfort and status, and usually included a fireplace and often decorative woodwork or tapestries/wall hangings.

SOVIM (Solar Variantions and Irradiance Monitor) instrument is based on an earlier instrument (SOVA) which flew aboard the European Retrievable Carrier, launched on STS-46 in 1992. It is designed to measure solar radiation with wavelengths from 200 nanometers - 100 micrometers. This covers near-ultraviolet, visible and infrared areas of the spectrum.

SOLSPEC (Solar Spectral irradiance measurements) is designed to measure the solar spectral irradiance in the 165 - 3000 nanometer range with high spectral resolution.

World Energy Outlook 2018

Major transformations are underway for the global energy sector, from growing electrification to the expansion of renewables, upheavals in oil production and globalization of natural gas markets. Across all regions and fuels, policy choices made by governments will determine the shape of the energy system of the future.
Learn more: www.iea.org/weo2018

An Introduction to IRENA

IRENA is a hub, a knowledge centre, and a global voice for renewable energy. IRENA promotes the widespread adoption and sustainable use of all forms of renewable energy, including bioenergy, geothermal, hydropower, ocean, solar and wind energy in the pursuit of sustainable development, energy access, energy security and low-carbon economic growth and prosperity.
More info: www.irena.org

6:23

California Is Requiring Solar Panels On All New Houses

California Is Requiring Solar Panels On All New Houses

California Is Requiring Solar Panels On All New Houses

California has become the first state to require that new homes be built with solar panels. The rules go into place in 2020 and are part of the state’s ambitious efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. But these requirements also make it more expensive to build in a state where housing is already extremely expensive.
The new building rules approved by the California Energy Commission apply to all residential buildings up to three stories high (including both single-family buildings and condos). They’ll no doubt help California reach its goal of having at least half of electricity come from renewable energy by 2030. Solar is already responsible for about 16 percent of California electricity...Read More At:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/9/17335832/california-solar-panel-housing-politics-renewable-energy
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National GeographicMegastructures - Featuring Adani’s Solar Power Plant- BBCDocumentaryHistoryAdani Group:
Adani Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Its diversified businesses include resources, logistics, agribusiness and energy sectors.[5] The Group is the largest port developer and operator in India with Mundra Port being the country’s largest commercial port. It owns Fortune, India’s largest edible oil brand through a joint venture with Wilmar International in Singapore.[6] The FlagshipCompany of the Adani group is Adani Enterprises Limited. In April 2014, it added the 4th unit of 660 MW at its TirodaPower plant, making Adani power the largest private power producer of the country. In 2015, Adani was ranked India's most trusted infrastructure brand by The Brand Trust Report 2015.[7]
The company was founded in 1988 as a commodity trading business. First generation entrepreneur Gautam Adani is the founder & chairman of Adani Group. According to Mr Gautam Adani,The Group was created with a vision of ‘NationBuilding’ by developing assets of national economic significance. This reflects in the choice of businesses the group has entered and developed over the years
Solar power
https://goo.gl/h5trfZ
Solar power is the conversion of sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), or indirectly using concentrated solar power. Concentrated solar power systems use lenses or mirrors and tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam. Photovoltaic cells convert light into an electric current using the photovoltaic effect.[1]
The InternationalEnergyAgency projected in 2014 that under its "high renewables" scenario, by 2050, solar photovoltaics and concentrated solar power would contribute about 16 and 11 percent, respectively, of the worldwide electricity consumption, and solar would be the world's largest source of electricity. Most solar installations would be in China and India.[2]
Photovoltaics were initially solely used as a source of electricity for small and medium-sized applications, from the calculator powered by a single solar cell to remote homes powered by an off-grid rooftop PV system. As the cost of solar electricity has fallen, the number of grid-connected solar PV systems has grown into the millions and utility-scale solar power stations with hundreds of megawatts are being built. Solar PV is rapidly becoming an inexpensive, low-carbon technology to harness renewable energy from the Sun. The current largest photovoltaic power station in the world is the 850 MW Longyangxia DamSolarPark, in Qinghai, China.
Commercial concentrated solar power plants were first developed in the 1980s. The 392 MW Ivanpah installation is the largest concentrating solar power plant in the world, located in the Mojave Desert of California.
Megastructures :
Megastructures is a documentary television series appearing on the National Geographic Channel in the United States and the United Kingdom, Channel 5 in the United Kingdom, France 5 in France, and 7mate in Australia.
Each episode is an educational look of varying depth into the construction, operation, and staffing of various structures or construction projects, but not ordinary construction products.
Generally containing interviews with designers and project managers, it presents the problems of construction and the methodology or techniques used to overcome obstacles. In some cases (such as the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge and Petronas Towers) this involved the development of new materials or products that are now in general use within the construction industry.
More videos: https://goo.gl/D9YhLb

1:39

Renewables 2017: A new era for solar power

Renewables 2017: A new era for solar power

Renewables 2017: A new era for solar power

Solar PV grew faster than any other fuel in 2016, opening a new era for solar power.
ExploreRenewables 2017 in more detail: www.iea.org/renewables

Why solar power is spreading so fast in Africa | The Economist

Africans have been waiting for decades for the mains electricity which the rich world takes for granted. Sub-Saharan Africa’s 910m people consume less electricity each year than the 4.8m people of Alabama. Many more who are on the grid suffer brown-outs and dangerous surges in current. But a solar revolution is afoot.
Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: http://econ.st/2F8I0jB
In 2009 just 1% of sub-Saharan Africans used solar lighting. Now it is nearly 5% or 11m people. The InternationalEnergyAgency, a Paris-based government think-tank, reckons that 500m more people will have solar electricity by 2030,
Why is solar power spreading so fast in Africa? There are three main reasons.
First, solar panel technology has improved. Efficiency gains and mass production mean that modern photovoltaic panels have plunged in price per watt – to around 30 cents.
Second, low-energy bulbs have got better and cheaper. Modern solar lamps cost as little as $8—they charge by day and give light by night. They replace costly and dangerous alternatives - Africans waste $10 billion a year on kerosene. Even worse are candles, open fires—or darkness, which hurts productivity and encourages crime.
The third, crucial development is in storage, as lamps are needed at night and solar power is collected in the daytime. Old nickel cadmium batteries wore out after 500 recharges; lithium-based ones can manage 2,000 and store much more electricity
Additionally, solar power is increasingly well-financed in Africa. Aid donors are sponsoring more ambitious projects – specially designed fridges and televisions, for example. Bigger solar systems can run a school or clinic, a grain mill or irrigation pump, or even a whole village.
Some dismiss solar as a second-best solution. But conventional, centralised electrical grids have proved unreliable and inefficient in the past -- and solar is much better than nothing.
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1:31:43

IEA's Renewable Energy Market Report 2017

IEA's Renewable Energy Market Report 2017

IEA's Renewable Energy Market Report 2017

The CSISEnergy and National SecurityProgram is pleased to host Heymi Bahar, Project Manager of the Renewable EnergyDivision at the International Energy Agency (IEA), for a presentation of the IEA's Renewable Energy MarketReport 2017 (formerly titled Medium-Term Renewables Market Report). The report provides a detailed market analysis and overview of renewable electricity capacity and generation, biofuels production, and heat consumption, as well as a forecast for the period between 2017 and 2022. This year's report also assesses the off-grid solar market in Africa and developing Asia and the contribution of electric vehicles to renewable road transport.
Additionally, the Renewable Energy Market Report 2017 identifies a set of policy improvements in key markets that could accelerate the growth of renewables in the electricity sector as well as transport biofuels, necessary in all sectors for increased decarbonisation on track with long-term climate goals.

5:07

Accelerating Renewable Energy in SIDS

Accelerating Renewable Energy in SIDS

Accelerating Renewable Energy in SIDS

3:58

Dolf Gielen, Head of Innovation, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

Dolf Gielen, Head of Innovation, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

Dolf Gielen, Head of Innovation, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

“The cliché is that industry can’t do anything because they need cheap energy and you should just leave it to the market,” says Dolf Gielen, Head of Innovation, IRENA, also speaking to Climate TV. “But industry is also the largest consumer of energy, and therefore it has a great opportunity to influence how the sector develops. And in that sense RE100 is really key.”
By demonstrating the strong business case for switching to renewables, companies in RE100 played a crucial role in the climate negotiations that led to the Paris Agreement last December – while speaking to the market with one voice.
A central characteristic of RE100 is that is composed of “the companies that everybody knows, the big companies,” continues Dolf Gielen, “showing that it is possible to move to 100% renewables, and that has of course a great function as an example for all the others. If these companies can do it, then why not everyone?”

World Energy Outlook 2018

Major transformations are underway for the global energy sector, from growing electrification to the expansion of renewables, upheavals in oil production and globalization of natural gas markets. Across all regions and fuels, policy choices made by governments will determine the shape of the energy system of the future.
Learn more: www.iea.org/weo2018

An Introduction to IRENA

IRENA is a hub, a knowledge centre, and a global voice for renewable energy. IRENA promotes the widespread adoption and sustainable use of all forms of renewable energy, including bioenergy, geothermal, hydropower, ocean, solar and wind energy in the pursuit of sustainable development, energy access, energy security and low-carbon economic growth and prosperity.
More info: www.irena.org

published: 07 Jun 2015

California Is Requiring Solar Panels On All New Houses

California has become the first state to require that new homes be built with solar panels. The rules go into place in 2020 and are part of the state’s ambitious efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. But these requirements also make it more expensive to build in a state where housing is already extremely expensive.
The new building rules approved by the California Energy Commission apply to all residential buildings up to three stories high (including both single-family buildings and condos). They’ll no doubt help California reach its goal of having at least half of electricity come from renewable energy by 2030. Solar is already responsible for about 16 percent of California electricity...Read More At:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/9/17335832/california-solar-panel-housing-politic...

Renewables 2017: A new era for solar power

Solar PV grew faster than any other fuel in 2016, opening a new era for solar power.
ExploreRenewables 2017 in more detail: www.iea.org/renewables

published: 04 Oct 2017

Why Don't We Just Put Solar Panels In Space?

If we can capture energy from the sun, why don't we just put solar panels in space?
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Why solar power is spreading so fast in Africa | The Economist

Africans have been waiting for decades for the mains electricity which the rich world takes for granted. Sub-Saharan Africa’s 910m people consume less electricity each year than the 4.8m people of Alabama. Many more who are on the grid suffer brown-outs and dangerous surges in current. But a solar revolution is afoot.
Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: http://econ.st/2F8I0jB
In 2009 just 1% of sub-Saharan Africans used solar lighting. Now it is nearly 5% or 11m people. The InternationalEnergyAgency, a Paris-based government think-tank, reckons that 500m more people will have solar electricity by 2030,
Why is solar power spreading so fast in Africa? There are three main reasons.
First, solar panel technology has improved. Efficiency gains and mass production mean t...

published: 16 Jan 2015

IEA's Renewable Energy Market Report 2017

The CSISEnergy and National SecurityProgram is pleased to host Heymi Bahar, Project Manager of the Renewable EnergyDivision at the International Energy Agency (IEA), for a presentation of the IEA's Renewable Energy MarketReport 2017 (formerly titled Medium-Term Renewables Market Report). The report provides a detailed market analysis and overview of renewable electricity capacity and generation, biofuels production, and heat consumption, as well as a forecast for the period between 2017 and 2022. This year's report also assesses the off-grid solar market in Africa and developing Asia and the contribution of electric vehicles to renewable road transport.
Additionally, the Renewable Energy Market Report 2017 identifies a set of policy improvements in key markets that could accelerate th...

published: 12 Oct 2017

Accelerating Renewable Energy in SIDS

published: 26 Sep 2018

Dolf Gielen, Head of Innovation, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

“The cliché is that industry can’t do anything because they need cheap energy and you should just leave it to the market,” says Dolf Gielen, Head of Innovation, IRENA, also speaking to Climate TV. “But industry is also the largest consumer of energy, and therefore it has a great opportunity to influence how the sector develops. And in that sense RE100 is really key.”
By demonstrating the strong business case for switching to renewables, companies in RE100 played a crucial role in the climate negotiations that led to the Paris Agreement last December – while speaking to the market with one voice.
A central characteristic of RE100 is that is composed of “the companies that everybody knows, the big companies,” continues Dolf Gielen, “showing that it is possible to move to 100% renewables, a...

World Energy Outlook 2018

Major transformations are underway for the global energy sector, from growing electrification to the expansion of renewables, upheavals in oil production and gl...

Major transformations are underway for the global energy sector, from growing electrification to the expansion of renewables, upheavals in oil production and globalization of natural gas markets. Across all regions and fuels, policy choices made by governments will determine the shape of the energy system of the future.
Learn more: www.iea.org/weo2018

Major transformations are underway for the global energy sector, from growing electrification to the expansion of renewables, upheavals in oil production and globalization of natural gas markets. Across all regions and fuels, policy choices made by governments will determine the shape of the energy system of the future.
Learn more: www.iea.org/weo2018

An Introduction to IRENA

IRENA is a hub, a knowledge centre, and a global voice for renewable energy. IRENA promotes the widespread adoption and sustainable use of all forms of renewabl...

IRENA is a hub, a knowledge centre, and a global voice for renewable energy. IRENA promotes the widespread adoption and sustainable use of all forms of renewable energy, including bioenergy, geothermal, hydropower, ocean, solar and wind energy in the pursuit of sustainable development, energy access, energy security and low-carbon economic growth and prosperity.
More info: www.irena.org

IRENA is a hub, a knowledge centre, and a global voice for renewable energy. IRENA promotes the widespread adoption and sustainable use of all forms of renewable energy, including bioenergy, geothermal, hydropower, ocean, solar and wind energy in the pursuit of sustainable development, energy access, energy security and low-carbon economic growth and prosperity.
More info: www.irena.org

California Is Requiring Solar Panels On All New Houses

California has become the first state to require that new homes be built with solar panels. The rules go into place in 2020 and are part of the state’s ambitiou...

California has become the first state to require that new homes be built with solar panels. The rules go into place in 2020 and are part of the state’s ambitious efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. But these requirements also make it more expensive to build in a state where housing is already extremely expensive.
The new building rules approved by the California Energy Commission apply to all residential buildings up to three stories high (including both single-family buildings and condos). They’ll no doubt help California reach its goal of having at least half of electricity come from renewable energy by 2030. Solar is already responsible for about 16 percent of California electricity...Read More At:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/9/17335832/california-solar-panel-housing-politics-renewable-energy
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California has become the first state to require that new homes be built with solar panels. The rules go into place in 2020 and are part of the state’s ambitious efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. But these requirements also make it more expensive to build in a state where housing is already extremely expensive.
The new building rules approved by the California Energy Commission apply to all residential buildings up to three stories high (including both single-family buildings and condos). They’ll no doubt help California reach its goal of having at least half of electricity come from renewable energy by 2030. Solar is already responsible for about 16 percent of California electricity...Read More At:
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National GeographicMegastructures - Featuring Adani’s Solar Power Plant- BBCDocumentaryHistoryAdani Group:
Adani Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Its diversified businesses include resources, logistics, agribusiness and energy sectors.[5] The Group is the largest port developer and operator in India with Mundra Port being the country’s largest commercial port. It owns Fortune, India’s largest edible oil brand through a joint venture with Wilmar International in Singapore.[6] The FlagshipCompany of the Adani group is Adani Enterprises Limited. In April 2014, it added the 4th unit of 660 MW at its TirodaPower plant, making Adani power the largest private power producer of the country. In 2015, Adani was ranked India's most trusted infrastructure brand by The Brand Trust Report 2015.[7]
The company was founded in 1988 as a commodity trading business. First generation entrepreneur Gautam Adani is the founder & chairman of Adani Group. According to Mr Gautam Adani,The Group was created with a vision of ‘NationBuilding’ by developing assets of national economic significance. This reflects in the choice of businesses the group has entered and developed over the years
Solar power
https://goo.gl/h5trfZ
Solar power is the conversion of sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), or indirectly using concentrated solar power. Concentrated solar power systems use lenses or mirrors and tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam. Photovoltaic cells convert light into an electric current using the photovoltaic effect.[1]
The InternationalEnergyAgency projected in 2014 that under its "high renewables" scenario, by 2050, solar photovoltaics and concentrated solar power would contribute about 16 and 11 percent, respectively, of the worldwide electricity consumption, and solar would be the world's largest source of electricity. Most solar installations would be in China and India.[2]
Photovoltaics were initially solely used as a source of electricity for small and medium-sized applications, from the calculator powered by a single solar cell to remote homes powered by an off-grid rooftop PV system. As the cost of solar electricity has fallen, the number of grid-connected solar PV systems has grown into the millions and utility-scale solar power stations with hundreds of megawatts are being built. Solar PV is rapidly becoming an inexpensive, low-carbon technology to harness renewable energy from the Sun. The current largest photovoltaic power station in the world is the 850 MW Longyangxia DamSolarPark, in Qinghai, China.
Commercial concentrated solar power plants were first developed in the 1980s. The 392 MW Ivanpah installation is the largest concentrating solar power plant in the world, located in the Mojave Desert of California.
Megastructures :
Megastructures is a documentary television series appearing on the National Geographic Channel in the United States and the United Kingdom, Channel 5 in the United Kingdom, France 5 in France, and 7mate in Australia.
Each episode is an educational look of varying depth into the construction, operation, and staffing of various structures or construction projects, but not ordinary construction products.
Generally containing interviews with designers and project managers, it presents the problems of construction and the methodology or techniques used to overcome obstacles. In some cases (such as the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge and Petronas Towers) this involved the development of new materials or products that are now in general use within the construction industry.
More videos: https://goo.gl/D9YhLb

National GeographicMegastructures - Featuring Adani’s Solar Power Plant- BBCDocumentaryHistoryAdani Group:
Adani Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Its diversified businesses include resources, logistics, agribusiness and energy sectors.[5] The Group is the largest port developer and operator in India with Mundra Port being the country’s largest commercial port. It owns Fortune, India’s largest edible oil brand through a joint venture with Wilmar International in Singapore.[6] The FlagshipCompany of the Adani group is Adani Enterprises Limited. In April 2014, it added the 4th unit of 660 MW at its TirodaPower plant, making Adani power the largest private power producer of the country. In 2015, Adani was ranked India's most trusted infrastructure brand by The Brand Trust Report 2015.[7]
The company was founded in 1988 as a commodity trading business. First generation entrepreneur Gautam Adani is the founder & chairman of Adani Group. According to Mr Gautam Adani,The Group was created with a vision of ‘NationBuilding’ by developing assets of national economic significance. This reflects in the choice of businesses the group has entered and developed over the years
Solar power
https://goo.gl/h5trfZ
Solar power is the conversion of sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), or indirectly using concentrated solar power. Concentrated solar power systems use lenses or mirrors and tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam. Photovoltaic cells convert light into an electric current using the photovoltaic effect.[1]
The InternationalEnergyAgency projected in 2014 that under its "high renewables" scenario, by 2050, solar photovoltaics and concentrated solar power would contribute about 16 and 11 percent, respectively, of the worldwide electricity consumption, and solar would be the world's largest source of electricity. Most solar installations would be in China and India.[2]
Photovoltaics were initially solely used as a source of electricity for small and medium-sized applications, from the calculator powered by a single solar cell to remote homes powered by an off-grid rooftop PV system. As the cost of solar electricity has fallen, the number of grid-connected solar PV systems has grown into the millions and utility-scale solar power stations with hundreds of megawatts are being built. Solar PV is rapidly becoming an inexpensive, low-carbon technology to harness renewable energy from the Sun. The current largest photovoltaic power station in the world is the 850 MW Longyangxia DamSolarPark, in Qinghai, China.
Commercial concentrated solar power plants were first developed in the 1980s. The 392 MW Ivanpah installation is the largest concentrating solar power plant in the world, located in the Mojave Desert of California.
Megastructures :
Megastructures is a documentary television series appearing on the National Geographic Channel in the United States and the United Kingdom, Channel 5 in the United Kingdom, France 5 in France, and 7mate in Australia.
Each episode is an educational look of varying depth into the construction, operation, and staffing of various structures or construction projects, but not ordinary construction products.
Generally containing interviews with designers and project managers, it presents the problems of construction and the methodology or techniques used to overcome obstacles. In some cases (such as the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge and Petronas Towers) this involved the development of new materials or products that are now in general use within the construction industry.
More videos: https://goo.gl/D9YhLb

Why solar power is spreading so fast in Africa | The Economist

Africans have been waiting for decades for the mains electricity which the rich world takes for granted. Sub-Saharan Africa’s 910m people consume less electrici...

Africans have been waiting for decades for the mains electricity which the rich world takes for granted. Sub-Saharan Africa’s 910m people consume less electricity each year than the 4.8m people of Alabama. Many more who are on the grid suffer brown-outs and dangerous surges in current. But a solar revolution is afoot.
Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: http://econ.st/2F8I0jB
In 2009 just 1% of sub-Saharan Africans used solar lighting. Now it is nearly 5% or 11m people. The InternationalEnergyAgency, a Paris-based government think-tank, reckons that 500m more people will have solar electricity by 2030,
Why is solar power spreading so fast in Africa? There are three main reasons.
First, solar panel technology has improved. Efficiency gains and mass production mean that modern photovoltaic panels have plunged in price per watt – to around 30 cents.
Second, low-energy bulbs have got better and cheaper. Modern solar lamps cost as little as $8—they charge by day and give light by night. They replace costly and dangerous alternatives - Africans waste $10 billion a year on kerosene. Even worse are candles, open fires—or darkness, which hurts productivity and encourages crime.
The third, crucial development is in storage, as lamps are needed at night and solar power is collected in the daytime. Old nickel cadmium batteries wore out after 500 recharges; lithium-based ones can manage 2,000 and store much more electricity
Additionally, solar power is increasingly well-financed in Africa. Aid donors are sponsoring more ambitious projects – specially designed fridges and televisions, for example. Bigger solar systems can run a school or clinic, a grain mill or irrigation pump, or even a whole village.
Some dismiss solar as a second-best solution. But conventional, centralised electrical grids have proved unreliable and inefficient in the past -- and solar is much better than nothing.
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Africans have been waiting for decades for the mains electricity which the rich world takes for granted. Sub-Saharan Africa’s 910m people consume less electricity each year than the 4.8m people of Alabama. Many more who are on the grid suffer brown-outs and dangerous surges in current. But a solar revolution is afoot.
Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: http://econ.st/2F8I0jB
In 2009 just 1% of sub-Saharan Africans used solar lighting. Now it is nearly 5% or 11m people. The InternationalEnergyAgency, a Paris-based government think-tank, reckons that 500m more people will have solar electricity by 2030,
Why is solar power spreading so fast in Africa? There are three main reasons.
First, solar panel technology has improved. Efficiency gains and mass production mean that modern photovoltaic panels have plunged in price per watt – to around 30 cents.
Second, low-energy bulbs have got better and cheaper. Modern solar lamps cost as little as $8—they charge by day and give light by night. They replace costly and dangerous alternatives - Africans waste $10 billion a year on kerosene. Even worse are candles, open fires—or darkness, which hurts productivity and encourages crime.
The third, crucial development is in storage, as lamps are needed at night and solar power is collected in the daytime. Old nickel cadmium batteries wore out after 500 recharges; lithium-based ones can manage 2,000 and store much more electricity
Additionally, solar power is increasingly well-financed in Africa. Aid donors are sponsoring more ambitious projects – specially designed fridges and televisions, for example. Bigger solar systems can run a school or clinic, a grain mill or irrigation pump, or even a whole village.
Some dismiss solar as a second-best solution. But conventional, centralised electrical grids have proved unreliable and inefficient in the past -- and solar is much better than nothing.
DailyWatch: mind-stretching short films throughout the working week.
For more from Economist Films visit: http://econ.st/2F6DWQL
Check out The Economist’s full video catalogue: http://econ.st/20IehQk
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The CSISEnergy and National SecurityProgram is pleased to host Heymi Bahar, Project Manager of the Renewable EnergyDivision at the International Energy Agency (IEA), for a presentation of the IEA's Renewable Energy MarketReport 2017 (formerly titled Medium-Term Renewables Market Report). The report provides a detailed market analysis and overview of renewable electricity capacity and generation, biofuels production, and heat consumption, as well as a forecast for the period between 2017 and 2022. This year's report also assesses the off-grid solar market in Africa and developing Asia and the contribution of electric vehicles to renewable road transport.
Additionally, the Renewable Energy Market Report 2017 identifies a set of policy improvements in key markets that could accelerate the growth of renewables in the electricity sector as well as transport biofuels, necessary in all sectors for increased decarbonisation on track with long-term climate goals.

The CSISEnergy and National SecurityProgram is pleased to host Heymi Bahar, Project Manager of the Renewable EnergyDivision at the International Energy Agency (IEA), for a presentation of the IEA's Renewable Energy MarketReport 2017 (formerly titled Medium-Term Renewables Market Report). The report provides a detailed market analysis and overview of renewable electricity capacity and generation, biofuels production, and heat consumption, as well as a forecast for the period between 2017 and 2022. This year's report also assesses the off-grid solar market in Africa and developing Asia and the contribution of electric vehicles to renewable road transport.
Additionally, the Renewable Energy Market Report 2017 identifies a set of policy improvements in key markets that could accelerate the growth of renewables in the electricity sector as well as transport biofuels, necessary in all sectors for increased decarbonisation on track with long-term climate goals.

Dolf Gielen, Head of Innovation, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

“The cliché is that industry can’t do anything because they need cheap energy and you should just leave it to the market,” says Dolf Gielen, Head of Innovation,...

“The cliché is that industry can’t do anything because they need cheap energy and you should just leave it to the market,” says Dolf Gielen, Head of Innovation, IRENA, also speaking to Climate TV. “But industry is also the largest consumer of energy, and therefore it has a great opportunity to influence how the sector develops. And in that sense RE100 is really key.”
By demonstrating the strong business case for switching to renewables, companies in RE100 played a crucial role in the climate negotiations that led to the Paris Agreement last December – while speaking to the market with one voice.
A central characteristic of RE100 is that is composed of “the companies that everybody knows, the big companies,” continues Dolf Gielen, “showing that it is possible to move to 100% renewables, and that has of course a great function as an example for all the others. If these companies can do it, then why not everyone?”

“The cliché is that industry can’t do anything because they need cheap energy and you should just leave it to the market,” says Dolf Gielen, Head of Innovation, IRENA, also speaking to Climate TV. “But industry is also the largest consumer of energy, and therefore it has a great opportunity to influence how the sector develops. And in that sense RE100 is really key.”
By demonstrating the strong business case for switching to renewables, companies in RE100 played a crucial role in the climate negotiations that led to the Paris Agreement last December – while speaking to the market with one voice.
A central characteristic of RE100 is that is composed of “the companies that everybody knows, the big companies,” continues Dolf Gielen, “showing that it is possible to move to 100% renewables, and that has of course a great function as an example for all the others. If these companies can do it, then why not everyone?”

World Energy Outlook 2018

Major transformations are underway for the global energy sector, from growing electrification to the expansion of renewables, upheavals in oil production and globalization of natural gas markets. Across all regions and fuels, policy choices made by governments will determine the shape of the energy system of the future.
Learn more: www.iea.org/weo2018

An Introduction to IRENA

IRENA is a hub, a knowledge centre, and a global voice for renewable energy. IRENA promotes the widespread adoption and sustainable use of all forms of renewable energy, including bioenergy, geothermal, hydropower, ocean, solar and wind energy in the pursuit of sustainable development, energy access, energy security and low-carbon economic growth and prosperity.
More info: www.irena.org

California Is Requiring Solar Panels On All New Houses

California has become the first state to require that new homes be built with solar panels. The rules go into place in 2020 and are part of the state’s ambitious efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. But these requirements also make it more expensive to build in a state where housing is already extremely expensive.
The new building rules approved by the California Energy Commission apply to all residential buildings up to three stories high (including both single-family buildings and condos). They’ll no doubt help California reach its goal of having at least half of electricity come from renewable energy by 2030. Solar is already responsible for about 16 percent of California electricity...Read More At:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/9/17335832/california-solar-panel-housing-politics-renewable-energy
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National GeographicMegastructures - Featuring Adani’s Solar Power Plant- BBCDocumentaryHistoryAdani Group:
Adani Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Its diversified businesses include resources, logistics, agribusiness and energy sectors.[5] The Group is the largest port developer and operator in India with Mundra Port being the country’s largest commercial port. It owns Fortune, India’s largest edible oil brand through a joint venture with Wilmar International in Singapore.[6] The FlagshipCompany of the Adani group is Adani Enterprises Limited. In April 2014, it added the 4th unit of 660 MW at its TirodaPower plant, making Adani power the largest private power producer of the country. In 2015, Adani was ranked India's most trusted infrastructure brand by The Brand Trust Report 2015.[7]
The company was founded in 1988 as a commodity trading business. First generation entrepreneur Gautam Adani is the founder & chairman of Adani Group. According to Mr Gautam Adani,The Group was created with a vision of ‘NationBuilding’ by developing assets of national economic significance. This reflects in the choice of businesses the group has entered and developed over the years
Solar power
https://goo.gl/h5trfZ
Solar power is the conversion of sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), or indirectly using concentrated solar power. Concentrated solar power systems use lenses or mirrors and tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam. Photovoltaic cells convert light into an electric current using the photovoltaic effect.[1]
The InternationalEnergyAgency projected in 2014 that under its "high renewables" scenario, by 2050, solar photovoltaics and concentrated solar power would contribute about 16 and 11 percent, respectively, of the worldwide electricity consumption, and solar would be the world's largest source of electricity. Most solar installations would be in China and India.[2]
Photovoltaics were initially solely used as a source of electricity for small and medium-sized applications, from the calculator powered by a single solar cell to remote homes powered by an off-grid rooftop PV system. As the cost of solar electricity has fallen, the number of grid-connected solar PV systems has grown into the millions and utility-scale solar power stations with hundreds of megawatts are being built. Solar PV is rapidly becoming an inexpensive, low-carbon technology to harness renewable energy from the Sun. The current largest photovoltaic power station in the world is the 850 MW Longyangxia DamSolarPark, in Qinghai, China.
Commercial concentrated solar power plants were first developed in the 1980s. The 392 MW Ivanpah installation is the largest concentrating solar power plant in the world, located in the Mojave Desert of California.
Megastructures :
Megastructures is a documentary television series appearing on the National Geographic Channel in the United States and the United Kingdom, Channel 5 in the United Kingdom, France 5 in France, and 7mate in Australia.
Each episode is an educational look of varying depth into the construction, operation, and staffing of various structures or construction projects, but not ordinary construction products.
Generally containing interviews with designers and project managers, it presents the problems of construction and the methodology or techniques used to overcome obstacles. In some cases (such as the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge and Petronas Towers) this involved the development of new materials or products that are now in general use within the construction industry.
More videos: https://goo.gl/D9YhLb

Why solar power is spreading so fast in Africa | The Economist

Africans have been waiting for decades for the mains electricity which the rich world takes for granted. Sub-Saharan Africa’s 910m people consume less electricity each year than the 4.8m people of Alabama. Many more who are on the grid suffer brown-outs and dangerous surges in current. But a solar revolution is afoot.
Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: http://econ.st/2F8I0jB
In 2009 just 1% of sub-Saharan Africans used solar lighting. Now it is nearly 5% or 11m people. The InternationalEnergyAgency, a Paris-based government think-tank, reckons that 500m more people will have solar electricity by 2030,
Why is solar power spreading so fast in Africa? There are three main reasons.
First, solar panel technology has improved. Efficiency gains and mass production mean that modern photovoltaic panels have plunged in price per watt – to around 30 cents.
Second, low-energy bulbs have got better and cheaper. Modern solar lamps cost as little as $8—they charge by day and give light by night. They replace costly and dangerous alternatives - Africans waste $10 billion a year on kerosene. Even worse are candles, open fires—or darkness, which hurts productivity and encourages crime.
The third, crucial development is in storage, as lamps are needed at night and solar power is collected in the daytime. Old nickel cadmium batteries wore out after 500 recharges; lithium-based ones can manage 2,000 and store much more electricity
Additionally, solar power is increasingly well-financed in Africa. Aid donors are sponsoring more ambitious projects – specially designed fridges and televisions, for example. Bigger solar systems can run a school or clinic, a grain mill or irrigation pump, or even a whole village.
Some dismiss solar as a second-best solution. But conventional, centralised electrical grids have proved unreliable and inefficient in the past -- and solar is much better than nothing.
DailyWatch: mind-stretching short films throughout the working week.
For more from Economist Films visit: http://econ.st/2F6DWQL
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IEA's Renewable Energy Market Report 2017

The CSISEnergy and National SecurityProgram is pleased to host Heymi Bahar, Project Manager of the Renewable EnergyDivision at the International Energy Agency (IEA), for a presentation of the IEA's Renewable Energy MarketReport 2017 (formerly titled Medium-Term Renewables Market Report). The report provides a detailed market analysis and overview of renewable electricity capacity and generation, biofuels production, and heat consumption, as well as a forecast for the period between 2017 and 2022. This year's report also assesses the off-grid solar market in Africa and developing Asia and the contribution of electric vehicles to renewable road transport.
Additionally, the Renewable Energy Market Report 2017 identifies a set of policy improvements in key markets that could accelerate the growth of renewables in the electricity sector as well as transport biofuels, necessary in all sectors for increased decarbonisation on track with long-term climate goals.

Dolf Gielen, Head of Innovation, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

“The cliché is that industry can’t do anything because they need cheap energy and you should just leave it to the market,” says Dolf Gielen, Head of Innovation, IRENA, also speaking to Climate TV. “But industry is also the largest consumer of energy, and therefore it has a great opportunity to influence how the sector develops. And in that sense RE100 is really key.”
By demonstrating the strong business case for switching to renewables, companies in RE100 played a crucial role in the climate negotiations that led to the Paris Agreement last December – while speaking to the market with one voice.
A central characteristic of RE100 is that is composed of “the companies that everybody knows, the big companies,” continues Dolf Gielen, “showing that it is possible to move to 100% renewables, and that has of course a great function as an example for all the others. If these companies can do it, then why not everyone?”

Based on REN21's 2014 report, renewables contributed 19 percent to humans' global energy consumption and 22 percent to their generation of electricity in 2012 and 2013, respectively. This energy consumption is divided as 9% coming from traditional biomass, 4.2% as heat energy (non-biomass), 3.8% hydro electricity and 2% is electricity from wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass. Worldwide investments in renewable technologies amounted to more than US$214 billion in 2013, with countries like China and the United States heavily investing in wind, hydro, solar and biofuels.

One of the few encouraging trends in the global efforts on mitigating climate change is the rapid adoption of solarenergy across the world ...The InternationalEnergyAgency (IEA) reported that the global solar photovoltaic (PV) installed capacity is expected to increase beyond 1,600 Gigawatts (GW) by 2030....

One of the few encouraging trends in the global efforts on mitigating climate change is the rapid adoption of solarenergy across the world ...The InternationalEnergyAgency (IEA) reported that the global solar photovoltaic (PV) installed capacity is expected to increase beyond 1,600 Gigawatts (GW) by 2030....

WARRENSBURG – Solar panels will be installed early next year at the Johnson CountyCommunity Health Services building, 723 PCARoad, under a contract approved Thursday, Nov ... The agency would receive half the tax credits and all the energy savings, he said ... He said the agency will have an anticipated savings of $216,000 over 25 years....

After safely landing on Mars following its nearly seven month journey, NASA has released the first pictures taken by its InSight spacecraft, which has opened it solar arrays to charge batteries ... NASA did say its solar arrays have deployed, which is good news since the lander runs on solarenergy.&nbsp;....